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• Author/Creator:Rushworth, R., active 1785-1786, printmaker.
  
• Title:The bum shop [graphic] / RR [monogram] delin.
  
• Publication:London : Published July 11th 1785 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, [11 July 1785]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 32.8 x 46 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 785.07.11.01+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Watermark in center of sheet: fleur-de-lis with CV [monogram] below.
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii; 1954.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:laid paper
  
• Notes:Title etched below image.
  Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  Exhibited: "Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, September 2015 - February 2016.
  
• Summary:"Two fashionably dressed shopmen supply ladies with pads to extend their dresses at the back. Two other ladies have already been fitted; a fifth, who is buxom, sits on a stool clasping an inflated specimen at which she smiles with satisfaction. Various types of these pads or 'derrières' hang on the wall, and a pile lies on the ground (right). A dog, shaved in the French manner showing very thin hindquarters, is begging. Beneath the title is engraved: 'Derriere begs leave to submit to the attention of that most indulgent part of the Public the Ladies in general, and more especially those to whom Nature in a slovenly moment has been niggardly in her distribution of certain lovely Endowments, his much improved (aridæ nates) or Dried Bums so justly admired for their happy resemblance to nature. Derriere flatters himself that he stands unrivalled in this fashionable article of female Invention, he having spared neither pains nor expence in procuring every possible information on the subject, to render himself competent to the artfully supplying this necessary appendage of female excellence.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• References:Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 6, no. 6874
  
• Subjects:Benches.
  Dogs.
  Hats.
  Interiors.
  Lingerie.
  Mirrors.
  Poodles.
  Sales personnel.
  Stores & shops.
  
• Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1785.
  Etchings--England--London--1785.
  
• Also listed under:Fores, S. W., publisher.